- [Tutor] Facial recognition is an important…part of Photos because it uses this information…for things like Memories.…So let's take a look at how it works.…I'm going to do Command + I on this shot…and just see that it's identified this face,…which is Leah by the way,…but it's not named.…Now I could name it right here…but that's not what I recommend.…What I recommend instead to do…and I've had better results doing it this way,…is to go ahead and close this,…go over to albums,…and we have a People album,…and we're going to talk a lot of albums…but we got to dip over here every now and then…'cause everything's sort of hooked together.…

So the People album has identified Leah…in this library,…so I'm just going to go ahead, double-click her, open it,…and you can see that there are nine instances…where Photos has identified Leah.…Well that's interesting, let's go over here,…and three, six, nine, okay.…So it has identified Leah in all the shots…that I have of her in this particular library.…So let's go back over here…and instead what I recommend is go ahead and…

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11/30/2016

Manage, enhance, and share your photos in a variety of new ways using Photos for macOS. In this course, photographer, author, and educator Derrick Story takes a deep dive into this Apple photo management application. To start things off, Derrick goes over the application's new features, including Memories—which automatically scans your library to create photo collections—object and scene recognition, and a new editing slider called Brilliance.

Later, he walks you through how to use the application's basic editing tools, as well as more advanced elements like the histogram, a graphical chart of the tones in your pictures. Learn how to share your images to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, work with video taken on a camera or smartphone, and tap into the power of iCloud to access your images from your personal devices.

Are you still using OS X El Capitan and its older version of Photos, Photos for OS X? You may want to check out Derrick's Photos for OS X Essential Training course, which covers all of the features in Photos 1.0.